CMN 2132 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Kinesics
23 Feb 2016
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According: to birdwhistell, 1970, kinesics and context: the first thing in terms of principles of kinesics is the high degree of interdependence among body senses. For example when someone doesn"t want to hug someone else they hug in a distance way (the way they position their body: we know that a kinesics behavior varies according to cultures and even subculture. According to the same author (kinesics and linguistic analogy (birdwhistell, Everything involved in the use of kinesics. Includes 3 factors: muscular tension (intensity), length of time of movement (duration), and extent of movement (range) [= structure of movement and creates meaning] Smallest unit kinesis behaviors, which is generally to small to be meaningful. Meaning communicated by bodily communication categorized into 3 functional groups: pleasure- displeasure (like-dislike, dominance - submissiveness (power -powerlessness, high status-low status, arousal-noarousal (assertiveness-unassertiveness, intense-relaxed) People who violate many of the nonverbal cues are not acknowledged very much: emblems: have a fairly precise meaning in a given culture.
